Unbearable Weight
Author | : Susan Bordo |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520930711 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520930711 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless (!) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body—weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more—in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape—finally! This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it!"—Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (2001)